Written by

Curt Conrad
News Journal

It's impossible to describe the sensation of getting zapped by 10,000 volts of electricity, but from what I vaguely recall it felt like getting run over by a bus - repeatedly.

The first time it happened, I was slithering through an obstacle called electric eel. You have to army crawl on your stomach through cold, muddy water. Not all of the wires dangling from the wooden frame above you are live, but several of them are hot and there is no way to know which is which.

I had the misfortune of coming in contact with a live wire as I neared the end of my crawl. It must have hit me in the face, because it felt like ...